Born Quote by Imogen Cunningham

None of us is born with the right face. It’s a tough job being a portrait photographer.

— Imogen Cunningham

The reason some portraits don't look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures.

— Salvador Dali

One is never satisfied with a portrait of persons whom one knows. That is why I have always pitied portraitists. One demands so seldom…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In making portraits, I refuse to photograph myself as do so many photographers. My style is the style of the people I photograph.

— Lotte Jacobi

I still find doing portraits a terrific challenge, but even though I've done hundreds of them, I've never stopped questioning the very nature of…

— Duane Michals

I think if you don't love people and aren't fascinated by them, you'll never succeed as a portrait photographer, because your pictures will look…

— Rankin

I loathe my own face, and I've done self-portraits because I've had nobody else to do.

— Francis Bacon

The way someone who's being photographed presents himself to the camera, and the effect of the photographer's response on that presence, is what the…

— Richard Avedon

Sensitive people faced with the prospect of a camera portrait put on a face they think is the one they would like to show…

— Irving Penn

When you do not like human beings, you cannot make good portraits.

— Gisele Freund

We demand that people should be true to the pictures we have of them, no matter how repulsive those pictures may be: we prefer…

— Pamela Hansford Johnson

I don't see myself as somebody who looks particularly good in photos.

— Tino Sehgal